For the birds

One of America's great twentieth-century composers in a series of wide-ranging conversations.

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Seite 43D.C.: Then would you talk about this liberation of time through chance operations,
as you have used them? J.C. : There was the Chinese book of oracles, the/ Ching
. But before the/ Ching, I worked with the magic square. D.C.: How did you use ...

Seite 94Suzuki did not appreciate the / Ching as much; he seemed to consider it a very
important book, but not one to be entirely accepted. I believe that, of all the books
he mentioned to us, Chuang-tze was the one he preferred. I have worked a lot ...

Seite 214D.C.: How far does this correspondence to the I Ching go? J.C.: I mentioned to
Stent what the genetic tables in his book made me think of. But I'm not at all an
academician, and could not go very far with my explanations. So Gunther Stent,
who ...

Über den Autor (1981)

John Cage (1912 - 1992) was one of the seminal figures of the avant-garde in the U.S. A composer for whom the whole world -- with its brimming silences and anarchic harmonies -- was a source of music, Cage studied music with Adolph Weiss, Arnold Schoenberg, and others, later collaborating with such artists as Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Cage was the author of many books, including Silence, X, A Year from Monday, M, and Empty Words. The latter are all in print with Wesleyan, along with Joan Retallack's interviews with Cage, MUSICAGE: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music and a paperback edition of Cage's Norton lectures at Harvard, I-VI.

Daniel Charles is the author of Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food and a former technology correspondent for National Public Radio and the New Scientist. He lives in Washington, D.C.